Electricity and Wizard's Kitchens.

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50640

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bluesqueak <pipdowns at e...>"
<pipdowns at e...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kathryn Wolber 
> <katydid3500 at y...> wrote:
> > 
> 
> > > >Debbie:
> > > ><Snip> Hermione mentions that magic and electricity don't 
> > > >work together. I'm assuming she means just at Hogwarts, 
> > > >right? 
> > > ><Snip> - - - - -  -
> 
> Kathryn:
> > I definitely think that this refers solely to Hogwarts. <Snip>
> > I mean, I'm pretty sure that some Wizards use electronics, just
> > not at Hogwarts.  
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -

> 
> Kathryn:
> > And I believe there is mention of the Weasley's having a
> > toaster one of the times Harry is visiting.  
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 

> Pip:
> Again, no. There is mention of the Weasley's eating marmalade, which 
> usually comes complete with toast in the UK, but I can find no 
> mention of a toaster.
> 
> 
> Pip!Squeak

bboy_mn:

It must be really noisy around you house with a name like 'Pip /BANG/
Squeak'. Sorry... just couldn't resist.

As long as we are in the Weasley's kitchen, let's have a look around. 

Refigerator?
So do they have a real refirgerator, or do that have a pre-enchanted
refrigerator like box? By 'pre-enchanted' I mean, they bought it at
the wizard's appliance store, and it came with a cooling enchantment
already working. Or, perhaps, you bring it home, take it out of the
box, preform an enchantment found in the instruction booklet, (which
has no doubt been translated from Japanese into something resembling
English) and that starts it cooling. 

The other option is that the Weasley refrigerator is just a pantry
cupboard built in with all the other kitchen cupboards, that the
Weasley's have performed an Cooling Charm on. In one of the regular
cupboard, they have performed a freesing charm. 

The next alternative, is that they just enchant specific objects on a
as needed basis. Mrs. Weasley makes some homemake ice cream (which she
actually did do in the book), dumps it all into a big bowl, puts a
freezing charm on it and sets it on the cupboard where it stays froen
indefinitely. 

So what's your guess? All of the above...? None of the above...?

Cook Stove?
Then we come to the cook stove, and go through the same sequence of
possbilities. Does Molly have a stove like object that is all
appearance and no function. It has a big cavity under it the resembles
an oven, but it's just a hollow non-functioning chamber. Molly puts
the meat loaf in and preforms a baking charm and it start to cook. 

But exactly what does it look like? Is it a wizard's appliance that
takes on the appearance of a somewhat modern stove but in reality is
just a shell? The stove top burners are shaped like gas burners, but
are nothing but shape. Molly puts the sauce pan on and performs a
flame charm that dances around on the top of the fake burner. 

Or, it could be an old fashioned cast iron cook stove. Some of these
were very attractive pieces of hardware. Again, it's all illustion, a
big empty box that she casts heat and flame charms on.

Or, is she cooking on the counter top of her cupboards?

Furnace/Central Heating?
What about heating their house? That old shack by muggle standards
would be freezing cold in the winter. I lived in a farm house (hippy
party farm) that had a large Kerosene stove in the living room to heat
the house, and a wood stove in the kitchen. It got bitter cold upstair
in the winter. 

So is there a heat charm for the whole house? Do people put slightly
different charms on each room? Does the house have some kind of magic
barrier around it to keep the wind from blowing through. And while we
are on the subject of wind blowing through, why doesn't Howarts put
some kind of barrier charms on it's drafy old windows?

And finally, aren't you glad, are magic and electricity, or more
accurately, electronics completely incompatable, or could Hermione
give me a charm that would let me point the tip of my wand at the
computer screen and magically the letters and words for the web
address that I wanted would appear, or could I write a letter in a
word processor just by dragging the tip of my wand across the page,
and the words and sentences I wanted would appear. Sort of a Quick
Quotes Word Processor Charm?

It was just a thought.

bboy_mn